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Mark Sheppard

(1964) Actor United Kingdom

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Mark Sheppard is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Essentials of Urban Design.

Quick Facts About Mark Sheppard

Born: May 30, 1964
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Essentials of Urban Design

About Mark Sheppard

Mark Andreas Sheppard is an English actor and musician. Sheppard is known for playing the demon/King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural and for his recurring roles as lawyer Romo Lampkin on the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on Leverage, and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's Firefly. He also plays the character Willoughby Kipling on Doom Patrol.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mark Sheppard

Tell me something I can dance to.

Dance

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It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that…

Ability

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Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Cards

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John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate…

Abraham

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The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

Defenders

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I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's…

Bizarre

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If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the…

Cancer

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In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of…

Done

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When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is…

Dance

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I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity…

Any

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The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its…

Always

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Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

Hitting

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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Draws

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We are all riding on the same bus.

Bus

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I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had…

According

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It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's…

Episodes

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The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Again and again

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Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Essentials

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With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Drama

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When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and…

About

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The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Alienation

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